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Facts of inequity that are base to this country. you can see him here, here with us, author, singer, and songwriter, doug levitt. his "the greyhound diaries: a digital memoir," with songs and memories is now available online. you can pick it up. what is the message that's in this piece of art that you've produced? >> i set out in 2004, with i saw -- i was aware of the poverty statistics, but saw a kind of unreflected crisis and thought, what can i do, if anything? so i set out on what i thought would be one six-week tour by gr greyhound, inspired by wpa-era projects that drew a fuller picture ...

Really struggling. it's up to us as educators and leaders of the school districts to put in place policy that's will help the situation. when i was in d.c., for homeless families and kids, we put in place a policy that ensured even if a family did have to move from shelter to shelter that the student could remain at the same school. that they would have a home base to look forward to every day. and i think those are the sorts of things we need to be looking at. >> there was a provocative op-ed from two professors from duke and new york times education editor fisk who pointed out that poverty r...

about his advice for perry and the state of the race right now. also, we're learning the back story behind ron paul's drama. he's getting flak for an answer to a health care question. turns out the scenario is similar to a real life death in his political family. and president obama's attempt to promote green jobs turns into a bigger embarrassment. first, the company he visited went bankrupt, now, it's been raided by the fbi and u.s. taxpayers may be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.co...

Justice and human rights does and that's what the rfk action corps does with juvenile offenders. >> so many of us have thought of your father frozen in time as the presidential candidate. but, of course, he was the attorney general and was chairman of the president's council on crime and juvenile delinquency. and social welfare issues for children were so critical to who he was. >> that's right. he's the father of 11 children. he loved children. and he was really concerned. with the time, juvenile offenders were looked at as kids who needed a good whack or more discipline. but he really saw th...

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